Heating system for buildings.



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E. .1. GREENE. HEATING SYSTEM FOR BUILDINGS.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22.1902.

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HEATING SYSTEM FOR BUILDINGS.

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EMORY J. GREENE, OF' PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

HEATING SYSTEM FOR BUILDINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 22, l902.\Serial,'No. 124,272.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMORY J. GREENE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heatin Systems for, Buildings and I do hereby dec are that the follow- .ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to heating buildings by steam or hot water, and particularly to novel devices employed in the apartments to be heated, the primary object being to secure efiective and economical heating without encumbering the rooms with anything noticeable ,to the eye or occupying the ordinary space within the rooms. An ordinary radiatorusuallyoccupies space desirable for other purposes, is not ornamental, cannot be moved, and prevents proper removal of dirt and compels the mutilation of carpets. All these evils are avoided throu h the use of my invention, which provides or placing the heating devices in suitable recesses in the walls of the rooms and then allowing the air of'the room to pass into such recesses below and back into the room above. In ordinary dwelling construction each apartment is provided with a base-board forming part of the wall, but standing out beyond the plane of the part above, and it is usually a simple matter to replace this by my devices in which heating-pipes are concealed behind a thin metal structure which has the appearance of the ordinary base-board.

In the accompanying drawin Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the wall of a room, showing my devices in position in the space usually occupied by a base-board. Fi 2 is a front elevation of such a base-board concealed heating-pipes being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 3 isa sectional plan view of a room having heating-pipes in the walls. Fig. 4 is a diagram showing a desirable arrangement of heating-pipes.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the flooring of a room in a frame building; B, the studding; C, the lathing, and D the plaster thereon. At a suitable distance above the floor is a molding E, which may be the base-board moldin ordinarily used. The base-board being a sent and the lath and plaster being omitted below the molding, there is left a rethe cess, and this is lined above, below, and in? the rear or next the studs or body of the wall with a sheet F of asbestos or the like incombus tible non-conductor, and over this is placeq;

a second linin G of sheet metal. In the ref,

cess thus line is placed a vertical series ol heatingipes H for carrying steam or hot; water. 11 front of these ipes is placed a; metal sheet 1,. simulating the ordinary base board, having its up er marginal portion bent inward a little bel dw the moldin E and provided near the floor with slightfy-sepae rated apertures. The pipes are supported in this space in any suitab e way at" some distance from each of the four walls of the recess behind the late I and the plate is'secured by screws I I M to studs J and blocks L or in any manner permitting ready detachment. The visible portions such as the molding E and plate I, are preferably ainted or j finished to correspond with the nishing off the room.

Fi 3 shows a steam-supply pipe N, from whic steam asses through pipes O Q to heating-pipes R, respectively, in the wall. Return-pipes S and T and a common pipe U lead back to the source of supply. (Not shown.)

Fig. 4 merely illustrates connecting each of a series of heating-pi es to common su ply and return pipes. t is, however, to e i understood .that the arrangement of pi es and details of construction may be varied in 1 various ways and that the heating-pipes may be placed in any or all the walls of a roomJ The number of pipes in each bank will naturally be varied with the heat required or as the conditions in the particular case may sugest. g What I claim is g 1. The combination with a wall-havin a projection along the line usually occupied y i the upper side of a base-board, of heatingpipes ocated near said wall below said projection, and a plate secured in front of said pipes below said projection and adapted to permit air to pass to and from the pipes near 3 the lower and upper sides of the recess in which they lie.

2. The combination with a wall havin a projection along the line usually occupied by the u per side of a base-board, of heatingpipes qocated near said wall below said projection, and a plate fixed below said r0jection at a short distance in front of sai pipes Patented Dec. I9, 1905. p

and adapted to allow air to pass to and from the pipes near the lower and upper sides of the recess in which they lie.

3. The combination with a wall having a projection along the line usually occupied by the upper side of a base-board, of heatingpipes ocated near the wall below said projection, and a removable plate located below j said projection a little in front of the pipes, having its upper portion bent inward, and 3 adapted to permit air to ass to and'from the pipes near the lower an upper sides of the Q .i ecess in which they lie, and a series of plateupports located in said recess. '1; 4. In heating devices, the combination r'ith awall having a recess in the place of the usual base-board, of a non-conducting lining for the top, bottomand rear walls ofthe recess, a metal lining protecting the non-conduct" lining, a molding extending along the wa 1 just above the recess, heating-pipes supported in the recess out of contact with its walls and with each other, a metal plate forming the front wall of the recess, having recess, a thin vertical plate lying in t BEST AVAILABLE coP its upper edge bent rearward below said molding, and closing the recess except near its top and bottom, and screws detachably fixing the plate in position, i

5. In apparatus for heating a room, the

combination with side walls having along the floor a recess having the height of an ordinary base-board and extending inward to the studding of the wall, of a thin linin for the lie plane usually occupied by the face of the baseboard and arranged for the entrance of air below and its exit above, and a series of heating-pipes in the same vertical plane, of a diameter less than the distance between the plate and linin and fixed midway between said plate and ining.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMORY J. GREENE,

Vitnesses i E. J. ABERsoL,. L. M. THU'RLOW. 

